HC Deb 20 March 1961 vol 637 cc175-6

Resolution reported, That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make fresh provision with respect to the reorganisation, development and regulation of crofting in the crofting counties of Scotland, and to authorise the making of grants and loans for the development of agricultural production on crofts and on holdings comparable in value and extent to crofts, it is expedient to authorise:—

  1. A. The payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of all expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under the said Act—
    1. (i) in defraying any increase in the expenses of the Crofters Commission attributable to any provision of the said Act;
    2. (ii) on compensation becoming payable, after the commencement of the said Act under subsection (1) of section fourteen, or as the case may be, subsection (1) of section twenty-eight, of the Crofters (Scotland) Act, 1955, in respect of a permanent improvement on any croft or on the subject occupied by any cottar, in paying to the tenant of such croft or to such cottar, as the case may be, the amount (if any) by which the sum which would have been payable by way of compensation in respect of such improvement if the said Act of the present Session had not been passed exceeds the compensation payable as aforesaid;
    3. (iii) on any croft being declared vacant under subsection (5) of section eleven of the said Act of 1955 consequent on the death after the commencement of the said Act of the present Session of the tenant of such croft, in paying to the executor of that tenant the amount (if any) by which what would have been the value, immediately before the death of such tenant, of any permanent improvement on the croft if the said Act of the present Session had not been passed exceeds the value of such improvement immediately before the death of the said tenant;
    4. (iv) in acquiring compulsorily any buildings or land, or any interest in land, which the Secretary of State is authorised or required by the said Act of the present Session to acquire in connection with the putting into effect of a scheme for the reorganisation of a crofting township, and in paying compensation to the owner of any such buildings or land, or to the holder of any such interest, as the case may be;
    5. (v) which is administrative expenditure.
  2. B. The payment out of moneys so provided of any increase in the expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section twenty-two of the said Act of 1955 attributable to any provision of the said Act of the present Session.
  3. C. The payment into the Exchequer of all sums received under the said Act of the present Session by the Secretary of State.

Resolution agreed to.

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